[Read Part 1 of this story here] Up until 2019, monitoring the people in the suicide watch cells at South…
In 2020, Brazil’s then-president Jair Bolsonaro criticized grade-school didactic books for having “too much written in them.” Apparently the Left,…
A decade ago when I transferred to South Central Correctional Facility, a medium-security Tennessee prison privately operated by CoreCivic, there…
Georgia legislators say they're going all-in to improve literacy rates. On March 10 the House approved a budget proposal of…
Through my three decades of incarceration in Tennessee, I’ve seen attitudes toward LGBTQ+ prisoners like myself change a lot. But…
Tennessee’s GOP-supermajority legislature seems to have found a bipartisan idea it can support: body-worn cameras for corrections officers in the…
In late February, senators in Georgia introduced a bill known as the One Strike Act. Though the name—a riff of…
On August 29, 2020—a date I had been counting down to for 10 years—I walked out of South Central Correctional…
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is not only continuing to incarcerate people past the point when they should have…
On January 27 lawmakers reintroduced the Prison Libraries Act, the first federal bill to establish and expand library services within…